What Helps You Quiet the Barrage?

Easier said than done.
The barrage is loud.
Over the years I’ve found a few things that help quiet it —
a walk on the beach, talking out loud to no one in particular.
Ambient music that turns my thoughts toward something larger.
Creative exercises that can take me from depleted to alive again.
And the act of creating itself — where ideas sometimes arrive
almost tangibly, from somewhere deeper than thinking.
None of these are complicated.

What helps you quiet the barrage?